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William Shockley



Shockley, William (1910–89), U.S. physicist who shared with John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics for their joint development of the transistor. He is also known for promoting the erroneous belief that black people are intellectually inferior to Caucasians.



See also: Transistor.

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